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Sunday, March 8, 2015

This Way Leads To Marxist Revolution

Spare a few minutes for this small but instructive drama in which a
self-described “bottle blonde bacon-eating vegan,” one famed for
railing against “privileged people,” “conservatives” and
“heteropatriarchal crap” - and for complaining about the burden of student debt - is shocked to discover that her degrees in “social justice and peace studies” and of course “gender studies” are not entirely useful in the job market.

Just as Pinocchio went off to school with high hopes, only to be waylaid by J. Worthington Foulfellow,
minority students are met on the way to campus by hard-left radicals
who claim to have the interests of the newcomers at heart but in reality
prey on them to advance their own selfish interests. Of course, what
black students need is the same solid traditional education that had
raised Irish, Italians, and Jews to full equality. But that would not
serve the campus radicals’ purpose. Disaffected radicals wanted to
swell the ranks of the disaffected, not the ranks of the cheerfully
upward mobile. Genuine progress for minority students would mean their
joining and thus strengthening the mainstream of American society - the
mainstream that campus radicals loathe…

As thinkers, campus radicals are
poor role models for students. Their ideas are simple and rigid, and
they rely heavily on conspiracy thinking that infers far too much from
too little. They are powered by emotional commitments that are highly
resistant to the lessons of experience. As a result, their cherished
ideas are now virtually obsolete, and strike any reasonably
well-informed observer as downright silly. The minority students that
they attract into their orbit are dragged down to this low intellectual
level.